Thread: Body line tech

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Alright, let me say right from the start that I expect to be reamed and pilloried by the metal working crowd for this post. I have been dicking around with hotrods all my life, and sometimes on old, totally thrashed sections of vintage body panels, the body lines, (or "reveals" as they are known) are tolally gone, flattened, or beyond repair. They can be formed in (gasp), filler,but it is somewhat difficult. The amazing "body line restoring tool" shown here is very simple to make. Take a standard plastic bondo spreader, and use you shears to cut out an opening as close to the shape of your missing body line as possible. Mix up a ball of your favourite play dough, and with a bit of carefull spreader wealding, you can recreate body lines very accurately. This (like anything) takes a bit of practice, but is surpisingly effective. This WILL NOT make you a Ron Covell, but with a minimum of sanding and a bit of primer over top, the only person that will know is you and me, and I won't tell!!!!

Brian, you need to write a book, you post some really common sense approaches.

I am writing a book, one paragraph at a time, in Clubhotrod.com The answers are common sense answers because I live in the real world and build my own stuff. I grew up dirt poor, with a lot of hotrod wants and damn little money to pay other people to do things for me. I only post the stuff that did work. There was twice as many things I tried that didn't work but I generally keep them to myself!!!